
Hype contrast
26 September
1971-founded performance wear company C.P Company has a long innovative history, rooted in revolutionary processing techniques, garment dyeing and resistant design. Now the label has looked back into its heritage, and for die hard CP Company fans and new followers alike, reissued two versions of its most renowned jackets - the Explorer and Mille Miglia. Whichever style you prefer, may we direct you to the jacket’s latest water resistant barriers and coated rubber insertions in contrasting tones, meaning that however much it rains and pours you’ll be wearing your favoured performance wear with weatherproof resistant punch.
Writer: Laura Hawkins

Knockout moment
25 September
With fashion month in full swing, we’ve got our eyes peeled for emerging talent. Chinese artist, sculptor and designer Wanbing Huang cut her teeth at Issey Miyake and Celine after graduating from Central Saint Martins in London, and the designers impressive exhibition and collaboration roster including teaming up with Nike on a VaporMax campaign and LVMH’s Future Life Exhibition in Paris. Now, Huang is launching her brand At-One-Ment debut A/W 2019 ready-to-wear collection, an offering alive with ruffled shirt dresses and blouses, soft shouldered textured coats and bell sleeved coats, for a romantic yet infinitely modern silhouette. We suggest you keep the pieces top of your shopping list for autumn.
Writer: Laura Hawkins

Art of stone
24 September
This September sees outerwear giant Stone Island delve into its archive for an exhibition that celebrates the brands, innovative, performance wear-focused and garment dyed 37-year history. Held at the Ba-Tsu Art Gallery in Tokyo, the exhibition features a variety of archival pieces that have never been seen in Japan, including items from Stone Island’s first ever collection alongside its Prototype Research Series, that demonstrates the brand’s unique developments in fabric technology and garment construction. ‘Stone Island Selected Works’ is on view at Ba-Tsu Art Gallery until 6 October 2019.
Writer: Jason Hughes

Bags of appeal
23 September
Luxury retailers are making revolutionary roads within the e-commerce sphere, to cater to a wide selection of heritages and ethnic groups. Take 2017-founded The Modist, which is geared towards modest fashion. Canadian-Pakistani Savia Shah, whose wardrobe growing up negotiated Canadian winters and traditional Pakistani dress, has based her multibrand shopping platform thirdedit.com around the idea of unifying the two, with a clothing offering that shows an interplay between Western and South Asian sartorial codes. Its brand offering at launch, includes Lemaire, Batsheva, Zohra Rahman and Maison Rabih Kayrouz. Shah is also giving Indian and Pakistani designers their first international e-commerce platform, and this includes 40 year old Karachi based label Koel. Its founder Noorjehan Bilgrami first came to renown through an exhibition of hand-dyed block printed fabrics in 1978. Bilgrami’s daughter Sarah now runs the label’s gallery, cafe and atelier, and Koel’s offering includes elegant handwoven scarves, and these soft silk bags - a relaxed accessory for an eveningwear outfit, or one to amp up a daytime ensemble.
Writer: Laura Hawkins

Bank on it
20 September
MSGM’s Massimo Giorgetti is having a busy week. Not only does the designer celebrate his 10th anniversary and hold his S/S 2020 runway show, he has also opened a new, two level, cement-swathed flagship boutique on Via Broletto in his brand’s home city. Giorgetti teamed up once again with ML Architecture (who also conceived last autumn’s South Kensington store), alongside Sabine Marcelis, on a space rich in textures and yellow and turqouise tones, including Marcelis’ custom resin fixtures, polished chromed steel and existing Lombard timber. In MSGM’s London store, D 70 sofas designed by Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno are presented in colour-popping red and blue tones. Here, they are imagined in striking icy blue hues. The stripped back, brutalist space is housed in what was once a bank, and we think it’s sure to make a profitable retail punch.
Writer: Laura Hawkins

Artistic license
19 September
The trio of swirly multicoloured oversized sweaters that closed the Namacheko A/W 2019 show got editor’s eyes popping during the Paris menswear shows back in January. Now those high-anticipated ‘Rezyane’ fluffy mohair knits have hit the stores. Taking inspiration from the paintings of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Edvard Munch’s The Scream and William de Kooning’s Woman, the whirling brushstroke mélanges of colours appear to be directly painted onto the sweaters but are in fact created through a delicate flat bed printing process. Not for the shy and retiring, these sweaters will give a glimpse of an art gallery when you flaunt them.
Writer: Jason Hughes